Study of the relationship among the design, construction, and performance of civil engineering structures. Methods for evaluation of existing structures, including buildings and pavements, engineering analysis of the failure of civil engineering structures. Non-destructive testing and health monitoring. Design of repairs or upgrades to existing structures, including cost estimating, scheduling, plans, and specifications.

Role of design-builder or design-build contractor in construction, methods of construction, project delivery, accountability, single source contractor, value based feedback system, contracts, and submittals.

Collection, treatment and distribution of water for domestic, fire and industrial uses. Collection, treatment and disposal of domestic, industrial and storm wastes. Analysis and design of water and waste-water treatment systems. Field trips and environmental experiments are included.

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CIVE4510Water and Waste-Water Lab

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Laboratory to accompany CIVE 4500.

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CIVE4520Water Resources

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Management of fresh water sources for residential, agricultural, industrial, recreational, and environmental use.

Structural proportioning of reinforced concrete members such as: beams, floors, columns and footings. Students will be able to design structural steel tension members, columns, beams, beam-columns and simple connections. Students will develop an understanding of the how and when design methods are applicable and how to make good design assumptions based on controlling theories.

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CIVE4700Special Topics Civil Engin

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Special topics in engineering to be determined by faculty member and student, approved by the department. Students conduct directed readings in an area of engineering, and produce a design or a report.

Supervised design projects applying the fundamentals of engineering science and the concepts of planning and systems analysis in the design of practical engineering works. The scope includes needs analysis, formulation of the design problem statement and evaluative criteria; analysis of alternative solutions and the generation of specifications. Economic, social, environmental, aesthetic and safety constraints are considered. Practicing professional engineers are invited to serve as consultants. Written and oral reports are required.

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CIVE4830Hazardous Waste

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Methods used for disposal or detoxification of hazardous wastes, including landfill, thermal, chemical and biological processes.

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CIVE4840Environmental Chem and Design

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Chemistry of transformation processes in natural and engineered environmental systems. Applications of reactor concepts to system modeling, thermodynamics and rates of mass transport and reaction processes in natural waters, treatment operations and other systems of concern in environmental engineering.

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CIVE4850Project Management & Costing

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General project management concepts including bidding, scheduling, progress monitoring, and closeout. Organizational structures within the engineering discipline including corporate or government and teams within corporations or governmental agencies. Economic analysis or projects including initial cost estimates and life-cycle cost analysis. Project networks including resource scheduling.

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CIVE4860Environmental Microbio Design

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Identification, description and activities of bacteria, algae, protozoa and fungi in water and soil that are principally responsible for the cycling of chemical elements and pollutant transformation. Water-borne pathogens and disinfection processes.

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CIVE4880Solid Waste

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Engineering and design of methods for collection and disposal of solid wastes in urban communities and related effects of such processes on the environment.

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CIVE4900Municipal Design

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An introduction to geographical information system (GIS) and its application in construction management, geo-technical engineering, transportation engineering, structural engineering and environmental engineering. Standard GIS software will be used as a part of this course.

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CIVE4910Geographical Information Sys

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Design projects in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Students will be able to acquire GIS data, process the data geographically, assess the reliability of the data, and customize the graphic user interface and software function. Students will be able to compare functionality of several GIS packages.

Study of the relationship among the design, construction, and performance of civil engineering structures. Methods for evaluation of existing structures, including buildings and pavements, engineering analysis of the failure of civil engineering structures. Non-destructive testing and health monitoring. Design of repairs or upgrades to existing structures, including cost estimating, scheduling, plans, and specifications.

Role of design-builder or design-build contractor in construction, methods of construction, project delivery, accountability, single source contractor, value based feedback system, contracts, and submittals.

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CIVE5400Advanced Structural Dynamics

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Modeling structures as single and multiple degrees of freedom. Iterative time and series analysis. Design considerations for buildings subject to earthquake loading.

Collection, treatment and distribution of water for domestic, fire and industrial uses. Collection, treatment and disposal of domestic, industrial and storm wastes. Analysis and design of water and waste-water treatment systems. Field trips and environmental experiments are included.

Fundamentals of problems in slope stability, seepage in composite sections and anisotropic materials. Compaction and field observations. Control of piping. Cracking of earth dams. Construction and case histories.

Methods used for disposal or detoxification of hazardous wastes, including landfill, thermal, chemical and biological processes.

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CIVE5840Environmental Chem and Design

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Chemistry of transformation processes in natural and engineered environmental systems. Applications of reactor concepts to system modeling, thermodynamics and rate of mass transport and reaction processes in natural waters, treatment operations and other systems of concern in environmental engineering.

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CIVE5850Project Management & Costing

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General project management concepts including bidding, scheduling, progress monitoring, and closeout. Organizational structures within the engineering discipline including corporate or government and teams within corporations or governmental agencies. Economic analysis or projects including initial cost estimates and life-cycle cost analysis. Project networks including resource scheduling.

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CIVE5860Environmental Michobio Design

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Identification, description and activities of bacteria, algae, protozoa and fungi in water and soil that are principally responsible for the cycling of chemical elements and pollutant transformation. Water-borne pathogens and disinfection processes.

An introduction to geographical information system (GIS) and its application in construction management, geo-technical engineering, transportation engineering, structural engineering and environmental engineering. Standard GIS software will be used as a part of this course.

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CIVE5910Geographical Information Sys

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Design projects in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Students will be able to acquire GIS data, process the data geographically, assess the reliability of the data, and customize the graphic user interface, and software function. Students will be able to compare functionality of several GIS packages.

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CIVE5920Capstone Design

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The graduate capstone design project is a major design experience as it draws upon topics covered in several courses. The project gives the students the opportunity to follow a project from conceptualization to design completion.

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CIVE5990Master's Thesis

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Research, study and other activity appropriate to the master's thesis. Students should consult the graduate program advisor for format requirements. A total of six credits of research credit are required for the master's thesis. The credits are taken as two CE 599 sections.

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CIVE7990Dissertation

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Research, study and other activity appropriate to the doctoral dissertation. Students should consult the Civil Engineering Department for format requirements.